EUDOXUS

, of Cnidus, a city of Caria in Asia
Minor, slourished about 370 years before Christ. He
learned geometry from Archytas, and afterwards travelled
into Egypt to learn astronomy and other sciences.
There he and Plato studied together, as Laertius
informs us, for the space of 13 years; and afterwards
came to Athens, fraught with all sorts of knowledge,
which they had imbibed from the mouths of the priests.
Here Eudoxus opened a school; which he supported
with so much glory and renown, that even Plato, though
his friend, is said to have envied him. Eudoxus composed
Elements of Geometry, from whence Euclid liberally
borrowed, as mentioned by Proclus. Cicero calls
Eudoxus the greatest astronomer that had ever lived: and
Petronius says, he spent the latter part of his life upon
the top of a very high mountain, that he might contemplate
the stars and the heavens with more convenience and
less interruption: and we learn from Strabo, that there
were some remains of his observatory at Cnidus, to be
seen even in his time. He died in the 53d year of his
age.

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